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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 18 Jun 1998.
Re: Athletic kittens/AOL posts

Re: Athletic kittens/AOL posts

Gillie wrote:
> lei...@aol.com says...
> > [6/16 -- BTW--Just FYI, this article was mine (Leihla)  and I don't
> > even know who this Murphy-person IS. An identity crisis  is
> > apparently one of the posting problems I had on that day. <g>]
> >
> > In article <199...@ladder01.news.aol. com>,
> > mur...@aol.com (Murphyb849) writes:
> >
> > >Subject:     Re: Athletic kittens
> > >From:        mur...@aol.com (Murphyb849)
> > >Date:        16 Jun 1998 12:53:49 GMT
> > >
[ 8< ]
> 
> AOL had been doing weird things to newsposts for the last few days.
> Among other things, they attach a random person's name to posts.  So
> even though you, Leihla send a post, it may well come out with someone
> else's name on it.  Most AOL posts are difficult to read right now,
> too.  They have sporadic question marks and little boxes from time to
> time.  Apparently they did some upgrading to their equipment and this
> is what happened.
> 
> I don't doubt that they're working on the problem now.
> 

So _that's_ what happened!? I got a little bit curious when I saw
different people in different newsgroups, all aol users, who seemed to
have trouble at exactly the same time...

[cross-posting to alt.ascii-art since I know there are people there who
are interested to hear this]
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